Ismail Sabri Yaakob

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In this Malay name, there is no family name. The name Yaakob is a patronymic,
and the person should be referred to by the given name, Ismail Sabri.

Yang Amat Berhormat Dato' Sri

Ismail Sabri Yaakob

SSAP SPDK DGSM DIMP MP

‫إسماعيل صبري يعقوب‬

Ismail Sabri in 2021

9th Prime Minister of Malaysia

Incumbent

Assumed office

21 August 2021

Monarch Abdullah
Preceded by Muhyiddin Yassin

13th Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia

In office

7 July 2021 – 16 August 2021

Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin

Preceded by Wan Azizah Wan Ismail

Succeeded by Vacant

Minister of Defence

In office

10 March 2020 – 16 August 2021

Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin

Preceded by Mohamad Sabu

Succeeded by Hishammuddin Hussein

Senior Minister for Security

In office

10 March 2020 – 7 July 2021

Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin

Preceded by Position established

Succeeded by Hishammuddin Hussein

15th Leader of the Opposition

In office
 12 March 2019 – 24 February 2020

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad

Preceded by Ahmad Zahid Hamidi

Succeeded by Anwar Ibrahim

Minister of Rural and Regional Development

In office

29 July 2015 – 9 May 2018

Prime Minister Najib Razak

Preceded by Shafie Apdal

Succeeded by Rina Harun (Rural Development)

Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry

In office

16 May 2013 – 29 July 2015

Prime Minister Najib Razak

Preceded by Noh Omar

Succeeded by Ahmad Shabery Cheek

Minister of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism

In office

10 April 2009 – 15 May 2013

Prime Minister Najib Razak

Preceded by Shahrir Samad (Domestic Trade, Consumerism)

Noh Omar (Cooperatives)

Succeeded by Hasan Malek

Minister of Youth and Sports

In office

18 March 2008 – 9 April 2009

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Preceded by Azalina Othman

Succeeded by Ahmad Shabery Cheek

Member of the Malaysian Parliament

for Bera

Incumbent

Assumed office

21 March 2004

Preceded by Constituency established

Majority 2,311 (2018)

Personal details

Born Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob

18 January 1960 (age 61)

Temerloh, Pahang, Federation of

Malaya (now Malaysia)

Political party United Malays National Organisation (1987–present)

 Other political Barisan Nasional (1987–present)

affiliations Muafakat Nasional (2019–present)

Perikatan Nasional (2020–present)

Muhaini Zainal Abidin

Spouse(s)

(m. 1986)

Children 4

Education University of Malaya (LLB)

Occupation Politician

Profession Lawyer

Dato' Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob (Jawi: ‫ ;إسماعيل صبري بن يعقوب‬born 18 January

1960) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 9th Prime Minister of
Malaysia since August 2021.[1] A Member of Parliament (MP) for Bera since 2004,
he is a member and Vice-President of the United Malays National
Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition
which is aligned with the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition. He served as the
13th Deputy Prime Minister from July 2021 to August 2021, serving for only 40
days, and several cabinet positions in successive governments from 2008 to 2021.
As of a result of the ongoing 2020–21 Malaysian political crisis, he was formally
appointed and sworn in as Prime Minister on 21 August 2021 following the
resignation of his predecessor Muhyiddin Yassin.[2] He is the first Prime Minister of
Malaysia born after the independence of Malaya in 1957, the first ever
former Leader of the Opposition in Malaysia to become Prime Minister and the first
ever Prime Minister who is not the one who is highest in rank in a political party or
coalition.
He served in several cabinet positions in the BN administration under former Prime
Ministers Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib Razak from March 2008 to its 2018
general election loss, including Minister of Rural and Regional
Development, Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry, Minister of
Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism and Minister of Youth and
Sports.[3] He was the 15th Leader of the Opposition in the Pakatan Harapan (PH)
administration from March 2019 to its collapse in February 2020 amid the 2020
Malaysian political crisis. In the PN government, he was appointed Senior Minister
in charge of Security from March 2020 to his promotion to the deputy premiership
in July 2021, during which he was prominent in the country's response to
the COVID-19 pandemic. He led a faction of his party (UMNO) that continued
supporting Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin in June 2021, when the party withdrew
its support over the government's handling of the pandemic. After this culminated
in the collapse of the government and Muhyiddin's resignation, he successfully
entered negotiations to become Prime Minister in August 2021 after garnering the
support of the most MPs.[1][4] Ismail Sabri has attracted controversy for his
comments in support of ethnic Malay pre-eminence in Malaysia.[5][6][7]